Drive better sourcing outcomes for tail spend

Automate 100% of the sourcing process with Autonomous Sourcing.

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SELF-SERVICE, NO CODE WORKFLOW ORCHESTRATION

Self-service, automated workflows for tail spend

Build and launch automated workflows in minutes

Empower business users to source like experts

Allow business users to source directly from approved suppliers for urgent needs. Business users can easily launch a sourcing event for suppliers to bid. No training required.

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Automate the tail spend sourcing workflow

Once a request is approved the bot does the rest. It creates the RFQ, selects and invites suppliers, evaluates responses and recommends the award scenario.

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Flowchart of sourcing workflow for Ocean Freight Bot including steps: submit request, enter data, select suppliers, conditional, select award, open bidding, and approve.
Bidding table from Ocean Freight Bot showing suppliers with invite acceptance, bids submitted status, and bid counts.

Drive savings by ensuring competitive bidding

Keelvar Autonomous Sourcing ensures all purchases go through a competitive bidding process. This ensures you pay the best possible prices even in volatile markets where relying on historical data can be risky.

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Improve sourcing compliance

Get complete visibility and audit trails for spend categories you previously had no control over. Approval steps can be included as needed for each category and remain with procurement.

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Customers extending their reach with Autonomous Sourcing

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Samsung

Samsung upgraded to Keelvar Sourcing Optimizer from Excel and launched their largest-ever ground freight event in just two weeks.

85%

Time saved building, running and evaluating eRFQs

Autonomous Sourcing highlights

Remove 100% of workload

Automate the sourcing process for lower value and urgent spend and free your sourcing team to focus on strategic work.

Automate sourcing for any category

Easily create custom built automated workflows for any category based on it's specific requirements with our no-code workflow builder.

Create once, use often

Once built, each workflow can be used again and again ensuring best practice is applied throughout the business.

Improve compliance

Because these workflows are custom built per category, approvals can be set as needed and remain with the sourcing team to ensure proper controls.

Autonomous Sourcing features

Intake
Supplier selection
Event creation
Communication
Award
Reporting
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Increase usage with easy-to-use intake forms

End users can launch events by completing simple intake forms that require all the necessary information for suppliers to bid. No more, no less.

User interface for supplier selection showing checkboxes next to various shipping container line suppliers with some selected, and a note stating selected suppliers will be invited to place bids.

Automatic supplier selection

The bot automatically selects the suppliers that should participate in the sourcing event.

User interface screen titled 'Event creation' with options to enable bidding and set event details including location, region, category, currency, total markup percentage, and capacity, with buttons to discard or submit changes.

The bot creates the sourcing event

Once approved, the bot automatically creates the bid sheet and any questions needed.

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Automated supplier communication

The bot sends invites to the suppliers, monitors the activity and reminds suppliers as necessary.

Award selection interface showing four items, their winners with check or minus icons, and associated costs in euros, with buttons for awarding no suppliers, selecting winners, and submitting award.

Recommended award

The bot automatically recommends award based on suppliers bids.

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A visual dashboard gives a complete view

Keelvar Autonomous Sourcing features a dashboard with rich reporting and supports export of data to your system of choice.

Driving better sourcing outcomes for every industry and category

93%

tasks automated in manufacturing

6000

events automated in food & beverage

750+

fewer calls to procurement in Direct Materials

10,000+

hours saved in technology

Sourcing Optimization

Optimize strategic spend to save time and cost.

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